AI was responsible for bogus quotes in Megalopolis trailer

So all these bogus review quotes Megalopolis trailer that was pulled last week was apparently AI. Not only that, but the person responsible for the trailer material, Eddie Egan, was removed from the film’s marketing team.

That’s all According to Deadlinewho reported Friday that the AI ​​nature of it all had been confirmed by an investigation after the fact. Neither Egan nor Megalopolis Lionsgate studio attempted to bogus quotes that were supposed to be critical reviews from the time Megalopolis previous films from director Francis Ford Coppola.

According to some quotes from the trailer, critics called Godfather “a careless, self-aggrandizing film,” while Apocalypse now was an “epic piece of trash.” But How Vulture excellent When it was first reported that the quotes were false, the reviews to which the quotes were attributed not only did not say anything of the sort, but were often written in the form of praise for the films.

It’s straightforward to see how this could happen. AI’s accidental, confident telling of lies is well-documented at this point; even companies that make AI products end up with factual errors in their presentations.